The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 2

“That must be hard work,” said the monkey, stopping to look; “try my knife—you will get on quicker.”

Who acts: That, hard work, you · What happens: be, say, stop, look, try, get on · To what, where: hard work, monkey, knife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, hard work, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

Pragmatics

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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